Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncc!lyndon
From: lyndon@ncc.Nexus.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Your right to swing your fist stops at my nose!
Keywords: The NET need not die...
Message-ID: <10289@ncc.Nexus.CA>
Date: 17 Jun 88 20:38:19 GMT
References: <5816@cup.portal.com> <581@picuxa.UUCP> <13@n0atp.UUCP> <2744@ttrdc.UUCP> <974@ucsd.EDU> <14@n0atp.UUCP> <10288@ncc.Nexus.CA> <21@n0atp.UUCP>
Reply-To: lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Organization: Nexus Computing Inc.
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In article <21@n0atp.UUCP> barry@n0atp.UUCP (Barry S. Berg) writes:
>In article <10288@ncc.Nexus.CA> lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
>>
>>	Only an amateur radio operator may initiate any communication
>>	that takes place via amateur radio.
>>
>>This means that "every" article would have to be verified by a licensed
>>amateur prior to it's transmission over the air. That same operator would
>>also be liable in any subsequent legal dispute over the article.
>>--lyndon  VE6BBM
>           ^^^^^^^   (Canadian Amateur Call Sign)
>
>
>   I did not find that quote in Part 97 of FCC's rules... Noticed the VE
>   Call.. If that is the case for Canada then true the net would not
>   be able to use Amateur Radio in Canada.

It's not an exact quote. It IS in the amateur reg's of every country
in the known world. Perhaps someone with a copy of Part 97 can
quote the appropriate section.

Actually, there are other reg's that would forbid this. Most fall under
the third-party traffic [dis]agreements between various countries. Although
there are over 300 "countries" I could potentially communicate with, the
number of countries I can exchange third party traffic with is a *very*
restricted subset (third party traffic being any message I pass on behalf
of someone else). In the cases where third party traffic is allowed, you
are required to keep a written (on paper) copy of the message for a period
of one year.

There are also reg's covering the "physical" transmission of third party
traffic. By way of example, we have several repeaters in the city interfaced
to the phone system. This facility allows me to call a non-amateur on the
telephone. It does not allow the reverse, because the reg's explicitly
forbid a non-amateur from initiating a transmission (read "pushing the
mic button") unless there is a licensed ham physically present at the time
maintaining control of the transmission.

There are political reasons as well that will keep this from ever
happening. If the commercial common carriers ever got wind of us
doing this, we would probably see our band allocations vanish as
the CC's started screaming "foul play." Check out the discussion
about the UPS band raid in rec.ham-radio for more info on this.

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{alberta,utzoo,uunet}!ncc!lyndon  lyndon@Nexus.CA